Reigning champions Surrey moved top of the Women’s T20 Blast table with a 34-run win over The Blaze at Trent Bridge.
Phoebe Franklin led the way with 46 from 30 balls as Surrey posted 155-9, despite Charli Knott’s incredible figures of 6-25.
Kalea Moore then took 5-22, a maiden five-wicket haul, as The Blaze collapsed from 98-2 to be bowled out for just 121.
Elsewhere, Yorkshire finally won for the first time this season with an 11-run win against Somerset as Lauren Winfield-Hill and Sterre Kalis equalled the world record for the highest fourth-wicket partnership in women’s T20 cricket, putting on 167.
In the Nottingham sunshine, Surrey’s win lifted them above their hosts with six wins from nine matches as The Blaze slip to third after a second defeat of the campaign.
On a tricky surface, the substance of the Surrey innings came in an 82-run fifth-wicket partnership between Franklin and Alice Monaghan, who made 35 off 27 balls.
Australian off-spinning all-rounder Knott took a career-best six-wicket haul for The Blaze and is now the leading wicket-taker in the competition with 16.
Knott also made 28 from 23 balls as The Blaze moved into contention at 98-2 in the 13th over with Tammy Beaumont making 37 in 36 deliveries and Kathryn Bryce’s 31 from 21.
But the hosts then collapsed miserably, losing their last eight wickets for 23 runs to lose by a wide margin.
At Headingley, Yorkshire had lost seven of their previous eight games but captain Winfield-Hill hit a career best 99 off 55 balls and Netherlands star Kalis 84 not out off 50 as Yorkshire totalled 210-4, the highest total by any team in this year’s Blast.
Somerset started their chase well, but their task was too tall.
Australian Anika Learoyd top-scored with an unbeaten career-best 103 off 49 balls including four sixes. But England leg-spinner Sarah Glenn impressed for Yorkshire with 2-30 as Somerset replied with 199-5.
Despite a first victory, Yorkshire stay bottom of the table, while a fourth defeat in nine games dents Somerset’s Finals Day ambitions as they lie fifth.
